Stop throwing your food away.

This picture by Roice Nelson shows a remarkable structure: the hexagonal tiling honeycomb. What is it? Roughly speaking, a honeycomb is a way of filling 3d space with polyhedra. The most symmetrica…

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Writing a logarithmic scale in a spiral that is then imprinted around the outside of a cylinder allows instrument makers to lengthen the scale.

Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the Sun’s mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA’s Nancy

Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines

Apple is finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to bring some of its technology to the iPhone this year, according to...

Atrazine, banned in Europe in 2004, is an endocrine-disrupting herbicide widely used on crops across the United States.

🤫 A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly “secure” messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad 🥷

🥸 The US government spent $3M to build Signal’s…

Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.

Not sure if you should choose A or B? Do a unix fork on the universe to guarantee you made both choices. Maybe a more appropriate name is 'quantum coin flip'.

Functional, expression-oriented data processing language

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.

Are you kidding? Edward Barbeau is now a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toronto. Over the years he has been working to increase the interest in mathematics in general, and e…

Archaeologists have discovered beautiful ancient glassware in Nîmes, dating to when the French town was a Roman settlement known as Nemausus.

A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.

Judge rules copyright law governs public data scraping, not X’s terms.

A story of finding, understanding, and fixing a memory leak in our Rails app. With graphs and code!

I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog